Read: "the male/female lead romantic connection that people insist on reading into every Rider show even though more often than not it isn't there"
lol I think there have been a few series where Toei have been quite happy to leave some room for people to infer whatever they feel inclined to, althought to be fair the last time they really did that was with OOO.
So 004 copied Krim. And somehow got deactivated somewhere until recently? (Cool outfit though)
The evil-Krim in Surprise Future is probably 004 too.
Going by OverTime's subs, he's been away doing things for Banno behind the scenes the whole time. For example building the belt Banno now resides in.
Movie spoilers:
[HIDE]I thought that might be the case while watching the episode, so I went and found a summary of the film. From what I've read, it isn't 004 but another Roidmude impersonating Krim in the same way.[/HIDE]
From what I infer,
the gravity surge/heavy acceleration of each of the "promised number" would resonate and get bigger, such that it covers the world resulting in the "global freeze".
in the first one, the roidmude tried this resonance with their mostly unevolved forms all over the world(or was it only in Japan?), but got defeated by Proto-drive
Again going by the OverTime subs, the first Global Freeze covered a quarter of the world. Four fully evolved Roidmudes should be able to spread the effect over the entire planet...which does seem to imply that the first Global Freeze was due to a single ultimate evolution Roidmude, but if that's the case how did Proto-Drive manage to stop it when, as Vision mentioned above, he wasn't as strong as normal Drive?